Let's see, what have I watched recently... some spoilers below...
Brother's Grimm -
Good movie, if you can totally forget anything historically while you watch it. VERY much Hollywood make believe and it has a totally unnecessary violence upon a kitten moment that distracts from the film.. But other than that, I loved Matt Damon and Heath Ledger both in this and I'm not a big fan of either. Monica Belluci was advertised far too much in the trailers for how little air time she gets.
Skeleton Key -
Sweet ass movie. Loved it. I don't like horror films with blood and gore, but this is my type of scary film. Me liked alot. I never got why Kate Hudson was so liked but she was very charming in this.
Kingdom of Heaven - SPOILERS - skip if you don't want to know....
OK movie. Not enough Liam Neeson. Some good acting in it, but I found myself liking the supporting actors better than the leads. David Thewlis, for a rather plain guy, rocks my socks. The leper was more interesting than Orlando Bloom's character and I wanted to throttle the writers for how they wrote the love interest. She's Queen and ruler of three bloody kingdoms and because she looses Jerusalem, she gives up everything and goes to live as a blacksmith's wife in poverty? So much for the other two kingdom's beloved ruler, she just threw them into major wars themselves over who takes her place just to follow him off ... BAH... well, when I can ignore those things, it was a good movie.
Merlin's Apprentice -
Remember the huge TV miniseries that had Sam Neill, Martin Short, Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson and a ton of other stars in it? Was like 6 hours long... Now THAT was a great mini series. This one.... not so much. It's the supposed sequel but they do so by totally ignoring the ending of the other movie. I couldn't get passed that enough to say it was a good movie. I liked it, but if you've seen the other one, you'll be annoyed with the sequel. Also, since you'll see it yourself, they fall back on the 'that's obviously a girl dressed as a boy but no one notices' which is hard to forgive them for.
Duece Bigalow, Europeon Gigalow -
Hilarious. You'll say eeeww! alot and be grossed out by most of it, but you'll still laugh at it.
The 40 Year Old Virgin -
I saw the unrated version so I don't know about the others, but the only thing I have to say about this is it has odd moments of sudden nudity or sex going on that to me seemed out of place. BUT other than that, very funny and sometimes sorta touching movie. I mean, they could have done it in a cruel way, like they normally do to little characters like this guy, but it came across as more real than cruel... Maybe it's Steve Carroll, he's a great funny guy. It also has the freakiest ending, like the whole crew got high one day and that's what they decided the movie should be like in the end... just weird...
